{"id":645364,"date":"2013-03-05T21:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T02:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=617162"},"modified":"2013-03-05T21:00:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T02:00:36","slug":"roku-unveils-roku-3-box-with-new-ui-and-headphone-friendly-remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645364","title":{"rendered":"Roku unveils Roku 3 box with new UI and headphone-friendly remote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roku.com\/\">Roku<\/a> officially <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.roku.com\/?p=4065\">unveiled its third-generation streaming device<\/a> Thursday night. The streaming box, simply dubbed Roku 3, comes with a new user interface as well as a remote control that features a headphone jack for private listening. It will go on sale immediately for $100 on Roku\u2019s website and Amazon.com, and find its way to retailers in April.<\/p>\n<p>The device\u2019s new UI should help a lot with content discovery. Finding new channels had become a bit of a challenge on existing Roku device as the company grew its number of content partners to a total of 750. Check out a demo of the new UI in this company-provided video below:<\/p>\n<p><form id=\"wpcom-iframe-form-f94186c3f7597d5524bda24256ff0f64\"  method=\"post\" action=\"http:\/\/wpcomwidgets.com\/\"> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"frameborder\" value=\"0\" \/> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"scrolling\" value=\"no\" \/> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"resize\" value=\"0\" \/> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"replace_attributes\" value=\"1\" \/> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"fallback\" value=\"&#60;p class=&#34;protected-embed-fallback&#34;&#62;This embed is invalid&#60;\/p&#62;\" \/> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"width\" value=\"600\" \/> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"height\" value=\"338\" \/> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_data\" value=\"rVVdk6o4FPxBu1ULQWbkYR8GHT4szUgUQvJGEq+ACWNdFYVfv0dxdry1M093H6yYQJLu032aZehVhclqNfH3fGpVAnkuo5cyDS\/lhmZd3sdoEwU6R+VuE+FS0ouOK98pKLEKeB\/XL2eYv3OqmyJKvLhe9G+TeMvQpZQOvp0J\/\/uCJk98GjsMkQqb9MhoivjEuiwoNvP1DrF6e8TTxMLrtMfr5LyY3s6tBSKamaDna6sqImLJ6Xs7R6RVyD0IFOzmxi6ZM2sFzXYFfT0x5B3njm+zyuuL0KsLR5XKpC1DQSU7z4gw6IuJ1yvEDyzH73ODS1ZhxPMZYPROyzU7LCZnC37X+0sR6kbUUBeqdzy8ca84wq0IvW65AraA84a1Ho1lGHSMWlthguMVL9TxIBy1Bnx7GRGfIayls6jiiJciyvRyNYNRlZsc1ibjP5aRX0rYG4duKWjqxSY4wD0OabKDCHAtTaZFFW8VrKvr84Z0MH6zd+AH73aye9hjsiMz2S6L9Jmv7ZNwrufqs3q9+yAgJe8AX\/7yzKldcUqmVw2WqWvxTJ0XlpfKXVCqPrYk1FAie8XsYE\/64G2Vz36u0DGcAQ45PSLwiBb2oOFyHezZTjVYk4lISbSwtnZC3VepXzrcJ07uzBIVvHzNpcEd+4VDaano5WneeWfQ0+V5fPrwLejZitXnunSUWaKBc4K8HXB+U2GWyyleZtHMZ7nscISNiPAxNZgUqbysd7orrONPUg11UCbrJNIt+KCLq5d2WV\/OLAftVv6JUfuq4+0+8AYCDPZVexXNbL6Kt\/P+v74ATVs5eeRzaYXzDfe7ByTCXZH7FqO45jnuH++C0WG57r\/BBh6+QL9wG8YevKg5HT160JJNpr\/lFWVNQd0eODRXPl9o4ChHwvukZSYd+g8p6FGlVTh4UN6z5H6HFhQw\/M95o25+hlrkPmiha5aTvUCjdjOxH3PgyA3kEtoCf\/BU\/5Apjg9YtZaVC1poqNm\/WfKxDpnB\/vrdnvjMmbiKw0Hb9K5tctf2l1wIv8iA+tNfA58SgW7XfUNtA+LKMPWE8fp79iyZ2WvmkJRRaUDb89tv9wTkIfUSdttvXQo6i3jP08TYr6THMU6DE4lmyaKWFra9Lo1IArrd+uTTcz5kuHeG+W0c8ha8+pFJYVAzlPWyf\/S4\/5WfP7Mw8sGfai8afGZUXT38riJyfqvGcK5y5ibYCTTT95xoROc1PCfDdyH60Bq+X\/Sy5wjONfaeh+RwrTUzCrLs0kqof9wPub+YDD0+R\/f8nI7+\/lPaT7Z8lu7YGqkfduF41nhs26NnmLuubW2keB79eHoe\/QM=\" \/> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_tag\" value=\"protected-iframe\" \/> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_hash\" value=\"f94186c3f7597d5524bda24256ff0f64\" \/> <\/form>\n<p> <iframe name=\"wpcom-iframe-f94186c3f7597d5524bda24256ff0f64\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" ><\/iframe> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.getElementById('wpcom-iframe-form-f94186c3f7597d5524bda24256ff0f64').submit();<\/script> The addition of a headphone jack for the remote control is a more curious choice. Roku hopes that the feature will help consumers who want to watch TV without disturbing others &#8212; but one could argue that consumers have already made their iPads the viewing device of choice for that kind of use case.<\/p>\n<p>Roku has said that the new UI will come to second-generation devices next month. Speaking of existing products: A company spokesperson told me that Roku intends to continue to sell the Roku LT, Roku HD, Roku 2 XD and Roku 2 XS devices alongside the new Roku 3 as well as the streaming stick.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the Roku 3 was a bit of an open secret: Not only had the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/02\/08\/roku-4200x-fcc\/\">device cleared the FCC last month<\/a>, but a Roku customer service representative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zatznotfunny.com\/2013-02\/the-roku-3-is-nearly-upon-us\/\">told gadget blogger Dave Zatz a few days ago<\/a> that it was going to launch this week.<\/p>\n<p>One feature still absent from the device is the ability to mirror content from PCs and mobile devices in an AirPlay-like fashion. <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/02\/27\/roku-airplay-miracast\/\">We reported last week<\/a> that Qualcomm has been touting Roku as a partner for its Miracast wireless streaming technology, with a Qualcomm spokesperson confirming that the hardware of the recently-introduced Roku Streaming Stick was Miracast-capable.<\/p>\n<p>Roku didn\u2019t want to comment about Miracast at the time and didn\u2019t mention the technology in its Roku 3 press material. 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The streaming box, simply dubbed Roku 3, comes with a new user interface as well as a remote control that features a headphone jack for private listening. It will go on sale immediately for $100 on Roku\u2019s website and Amazon.com, and find its way to retailers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}